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| Title: | Drug tolerance in mycobacterium tuberculosis |
| Authors: | Wallis, Robert S.
Patil, Shripad
Seon-Hee, Cheon
Edmonds, Kay
Phillips, Manijeh
Perkins, Mark D.
Joloba, Moses
Namale, Alice
Johnson, John L.
Teixeira, Lucileia
Dietze, Reynaldo
Siddiqi, Salman
Mugerwa, Roy D.
Eisenach, Kathleen
Ellner, Jerrold J. |
| Keywords: | Tuberclosis
Lungs-Tuberclosis
Pulmonary Tuberclosis
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Lungs-Diseases
TB (Disease) |
| Issue Date: | Nov-1999 |
| Publisher: | American Society for Microbiology |
| Citation: | Wallis, R.S., Patil, S., Seon-Hee, C., Edmonds, K., Phillips, M., Perkins, M.D., Joloba, M., Namale, A., Johnson, J.L., Teixeira, L., Dietze, R., Siddiqi, S., Mugerwa, R.D., Eisenach, K., Ellner, J.J. (1999). Drug tolerance in mycobacterium tuberculosis. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 43(11). |
| Abstract: | Although Mycobacterium tuberculosis is eradicated rapidly during therapy in some patients with pulmonary
tuberculosis, it can persist for many months in others. This study examined the relationship between mycobacterial
drug tolerance (delayed killing in vitro), persistence, and relapse. It was performed with 39 fully
drug-susceptible isolates from a prospective trial of standard short-course antituberculous therapy with
sputum smear-positive, human immunodeficiency virus-uninfected subjects with pulmonary tuberculosis in
Brazil and Uganda. The rate of killing in vitro was determined by monitoring the growth index (GI) in
BACTEC 12B medium after addition of drug to established cultures and was measured as the number of days
required for 99% sterilization. Drugs differed significantly in bactericidal activity, in the following order from
greatest to least, rifampin > isoniazid-ethambutol > ethambutol (P < 0.001). Isolates from subjects who had
relapses (n 5 2) or in whom persistence was prolonged (n 5 1) were significantly more tolerant of isoniazidethambutol
and rifampin than isolates from other subjects (P < 0.01). More generally, the duration of
persistence during therapy was predicted by strain tolerance to isoniazid and rifampin (P 5 0.012 and 0.026,
respectively). Tolerance to isoniazid-ethambutol and tolerance to rifampin were highly correlated (P < 0.001).
Tolerant isolates did not differ from others with respect to the MIC of isoniazid; the rate of killing of a tolerant
isolate by isoniazid-ethambutol was not increased at higher drug concentrations. These observations suggest
that tolerance may not be due to drug-specific mechanisms. Tolerance was of the phenotypic type, although
increased tolerance appeared to emerge after prolonged drug exposure in vivo. This study suggests that drug
tolerance may be an important determinant of the outcome of therapy for tuberculosis. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1363 |
| ISSN: | 0066-4804 |
| Appears in Collections: | Research Articles (Bio-Medical)
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